#36 Aydin Senkut

Founder & Managing Partner, Felicis Ventures

Felicis Ventures founder Aydin Senkut once doubted whether he'd ever have an exit. In 2018, he had six, including three IPOs: training platform Pluralsight, biotech firm Guardant Health and payments company Adyen. "You can never plan these things," he says. "It's as special as special can get." The IPO hat-trick comes on the heels of other portfolio wins like Cruise Automation, which sold to GM for more than $1 billion in 2016, and past public offerings for Fitbit and Shopify.

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